Raids on the Unspeakable Quotes

“All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.”
― Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable

“The time will come when they will sell you even your rain.”
― Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable

“eremitism.”
― Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable

“cretinous”
― Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable

“contemned,”
― Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable